Midwestern life is suitable for now. The weather is rather enjoyable, minus the mosquitoes. Bought Dad a mosquito-deleto system for Father's Day. It seems to help. But with as much land as we are on, we need a few more to make it really noticable. The weather, as those of you from MN know, is a main topic of conversation. So let me give you an update...It feels like it is Fall instead of Summer. We are hoping for some 80's late next week. Otherwise, it has been in the 50's-60's for the last couple of weeks. Nighttime temps in the 40's.
On another note-
I am hopeful that we get to move to Alaska. The bad news is the job opens up and/or begins in August, but Dave won't be off the ice until October at the earliest. I've got my fall classes lined up, so I couldn't go until December 23 at the earliest. I wouldn't mind having the excuse of moving to Alaska to get out of the holidays. It sure was nice to be away from that stressor for 3 years, well 2 that I didn't come home for.
Am working on school stuff mostly. And in my downtime, I am trying to put down notes for a book on Huskies. The books out there are not very helpful for the day-to-day experiences of dealing with a puppy.
That's about all I know for now.

Just waiting

to hear something about Alaska. I really hope he gets the job and we get a chance to move there. That would be very cool.

I am crabby right now. Kinda hungry, but waiting for the rents to say it is time to start dinner.

Gotta write a little paper for class. Doesn't have to be done until Thursday, but want to present tomorrow.

Mom wants to move some things into the newly cemented building, it looks like there might be a storm coming in, although not sure.

Missing my honey and just wishing he was home and we could cuddle.

everyone getting hammered in this household. bitching galore going on. the dog's been mean to me so he is on an extended time-out.

My honey called last night. The longest night of the year for him, the shortest for us. Soon he'll be coming home.

Maybe

Alaska for winter. the potential is there that David might get a job north of the Arctic circle (Barrow, Alaska) and I would move with him. Just waiting for now to hear if it will happen or not. If it does, then I will try to do my research, etc for my thesis while there. Hoping to get involved with the Eskimo community and gaining some insight into language that way. Otherwise, transcribing my data and analyzing it. So keep your fingers crossed.

having some slight problems with the home computer. It seems to be infected with one or two viruses and neither my mom or I know what to do to fix it. So I don't want to use it in case the viruses are not contained in Quarrantine. Norton isn't working properly and can't run a full system check because of it. Can't even runthe backup disks.
Going to the Prince concert tonight. So I need to get home and get prepared.

Its been a week since I last wrote. Have been inundated with homework. The class I've got this first term of summer is going to be annoying at best. Tons of work to do and people to avoid...

Been reading about my friend in Korea, sounds like she is having a rough time of it. I can totally relate. On the one hand, I miss those kind of stresses, but on the other, I don't.

David called on Saturday night, there is the possibility of us moving to Alaska in January. Depends on a lot of things, but I am hopeful. It would be really good for us and it would give me uninterrupted time to work on my thesis. Also would be good to bring the dog to a climate more suitable to him. But it is all up in the air for now. D needs to get alot of questions answered before he/we commit.

School starts tomorrow

Am kinda dreading getting back to the grind, but it will make the summer go quicker.
Had a great conversation with my honey on Saturday night. He is just trying to keep it together to survive this winter there. Two more weeks and then his days start getting lighter and longer and ours shorter. That is fine with me.

Why is it that MN can NOT have a normal spring, summer, fall pattern. We went from early spring weather to hot middle of summer weather within the past week. There was a tornado forming over the neighbor's house two days ago but then it was a torrential downpour as I've only seen in Japan during typhoons. The rain blew the tornado apart. That was a good thing. The weatherpeople say we are up for more storms this week. But the ground is so saturated that we don't need it.
I took the go-cart out last night and ended up getting stuck in the mud in the field. Had to have the neighbor pull me out with his 4-wheeler. He laughed at me. It doesn't have reverse so I had no choice. I knew I was in trouble when I went into the field and there was a huge puddle. Won't be repeating that move any time soon.

So right now it is 95 and 90% humidity. Sitting in the AC and trying to not go outside. But I need to get smokes and take the mail to the post office.